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THE flood of events which led to my leap from the window of the Soviet Con- sulate in New York had its

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Back of my decision not to return to Soviet Russia was the vindictive munner in which my son, an only child, had been consigned to seatlant the front by the Red Army. Back of that cold-blooded net was the way my innocent husband had been sent to his doom In the great purge 13 years ago,

Back of that killing, in turn, was his military service record in the Fir: World War when he won my

lance.

And forging this chain of impless circumstances was the "proat crime" I had committed in my effort to go abroyl when i concealed from the Moscow bow Soviet authoritica in my husband had met his death in our home lown in the Ukraine.

Before I recount the climax of my story, I must therefore go back to my beginnings on the pastoral steopes of the Donets, in the south of tussia.

1 was one of seven sisters.

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THE CUSTOM OF SALUTING

By Major T. J. Edwards

RALUTING and the paying of compliments may

SALL

bo

ank to proceed from the exercise of good manners, An oki French writer puts it thus: "The Salute and other military compliments have their own raison d'etre. They encourage à proper pride in the uniform, they effectively combine discipline with the respect due to superiors, wille at the same time elevating the soldier in his own eyes, by reminding him of all that is implied by the profession of arms and its traditions of chivalry and courtesy."

true

an

General Pershing, who commanded the United States troops in Europe during the Great War of 1914-19, stated the matter in more vigorous language. He said: "A prompt military salute is often mleunder- stood by our people, but it simply emphasises Aggressive attitude of mind and body that marks the alertness soldier. The loyalty, readiness and

will Indicated by a strict adherence to this principle Immensely Increase the pride and fighting spirit of our soldiers."

In view of the fact that compliments and lules and are reciprocated between practically all ranks grades in services and societies, up to and including heads of States, the act of saluting cannot be associated with the idea of servility, but rather with feelings of mutual trust and respect.

For many years It has been the custom for officers. to "pass the time of the day with War-

Officers and ratt

senior N.C.Os, when saluted by them, and re- cently this practice has been ex- tended to all ranks, if not univer- sally

large certainly on a fairly To this may be Beale.

attributed the breakdown of the rigid barrier which formerly existed between ulcers and other ranks.

Mrs Oksana Kasenkina's Own Story

Saviet

wha #

After

the

to

revolution they fled Turkey, where Loshakov established himself in business in Ankara. For several years we heard from Marin, until-news-reached us of her death.

Became Teacher

-

а

lived. Here,

school.

on

to

un-

the

Number of Theories

As to the belgin of saluting with the hand there are a number of mediaeval theories. One in that In

tournaments times the victors n shaded their eyes with their hand on approaching the Queen of Beauty to accept their prizes, otherwise they her would have been blinded by

in the lagat Navy, Warrant Officers and midshipmen are saluted, but neither are commissioned.

Still another, and perhaps the cor- rect reason, is that the raising of the open hand was a demonstration of that mutual trust and respect, already mentioned, exercised nobility in the days of chivalry, In token of these sentiments,

or cloth

whole movement.

by

helmet, have

to remove.

to

Practice Spreads

scholar,

By the early spring of 1021 the dazzling loveliness. The connection food

and blooms, and pursued me to America

civil war that had is not obvious, three-year raduated in 1814 when I was under in blind vengeance,

Another dea is that it is the 3. I was proflclent in German and My romance with Demyan Kasen- ravaged the country was over. Or-

that is salutert poor in Frenelt. My special interest in thrived even during the great der was beinut restored and virtually King's Commission

officer who holds i was botany. My father had a sis pheaval which shook Russia and all of Russia was under the sway of and not the

Saviet Government. t was This, too, hus no substance, because ter in the capital who was married the world to its foundations. Love the to Frenchman. His name was has its way even in revolution, pregnant, and we decided that Arbeau, and he was a teacher of First entne he overthrow of the would be better that I give birth to French. There were many such in Czar, and the people tasted a few the child in our home village where

remember months of freedom under Kerensky, our people stil Russia in these days. I Later they Then came the Bolsheviks under April 15, 1921, my son was born. In the Arbenus visiting us. left Russia with their children and Lentn and Trotsky,

those days it was still possible moved to France. For some time Our part of the country was the have a child baptized openly, and

from his sister, theatre of the earliest and mast we christened bin Oleg. my father heard

violent civil warfare. Jn 1

Demynn and I were welcomed as

knights Then we lost track of her,

territory the teachers by the authorities in Slav-

meeting one another placed third girl. My elder Jining Don Cossack I was the

Whites first began to battle the Reds, yansk. I was now qualifted to teach

themselves in an attitude of defence- sister. Marin, was married to a well- to-tlo engineer, a certain Loshakov, Guerilla bands infested the land for natural science. Demyan become an they

uncovering their heads lessness by the years. Through it all I stuck to my instructor. in mathematics" In

But head- and lived in

Batum.

on the Black

My local technical

There or raising their vizors, Sea, in the Caucasus. Her husband post of village school teacher.

Banco Demyan, mustered out of the were about 2,000 students in the dresses, whether iron cusque, shako, had soda works there.

service, also took up teaching. Institution-boys and girls who had bearskin

not always been casy The White aunies swept over our flocked to it from the neighbouring quickly, ani So the preliminary

One day Demyan, who was villages and Industrial settlements. region. known in the neighbourhood as A The life of n teacher under the movement of raising the hand former officer, was called to report new regime was beset with inany the head became accepted as the to the local commander. He was woes. Many of the old textbooks earnest intention of completing the. asked why he did not join the White were banned, and there were no

replace them. news ones to

The Y sister Eugenia, who is now in forces, England, came after me. She was Both Arrested political "line" from above changed

At the outset of the present Stand- with the local commissary of educi

saluting was by rc» very pretty. At the age of 16 she

tion. Supplies, such as paper and ing Army,

and ink, were

moval of the headdress, and accord- frequently officer," he was told. "Why pencils went to Batum to visit Maria. There "YOU'RE educated, you've been an

officer, she met a British

Eugene don't you go with us to 8ght the unobtainable,

Ing to John Locke, who witnessed Robertson, attached to the British

Reds?"

In addition, there was the break-a review of the Gardes du Corps in Paris in 1670, a similar custom pre- Demyan pleaded that he was not down in discipline. From the ex-valled in the French Army also, for military forces stalloned in the Cau- Ho fell casus during World War I.

wanted to can-

treme of the old severe school re-

he recorded that "The King passed in love with Eugenia, married her, in polities, that he

his sit dies and become

gime we now swung to almost

they stood at the head of the line as and took her to England. She was nue and very happy with him until his pre- professional teacher. When he flat- bridled freedom. The children ran

drawn up. the officers at the head join General Deniken's rampant. Many ly refused

class, in

of their companies and regiments in Eugenia became an Englishwoman.

would turn into a riotous meeting, saluting him with their piken, then My father, Stepan Burakov, was a

locomotive "I'll never leave England, for I love of being a Bolshevik.

was forbidden, and with their hats. master mechanic at the

He very courteous- the it." shic

I accompanied him during the in- Punishment wrote home. Although works near Kamenskaya, on

both of us were sometimes boisterous pupils went so ly took off his hat to them again: and childless, she would terrogation, and Southeastern-Railway running from widowed

not return to Russia-except-ng-n-arrested.I was released within a far as to bolt the doors of the class-so he did when.

taking his stand, Moscow to the Caucasus. He carn-

they marched before him." ed almost as much as an engineer. fused her a visitor's visa

tourist, but the Soviet Embassy re- day or so. Demyan was taken to room and bar entry to the teacher.

Rostov. We were all afraid that he

The Red Terror At some time during the first part would test foreign locomotives from

Some months after, 1 graduated would be shot as a Red.

authorities were of the eighteenth century, however, were shipped in when they

Demynn's

Guards I obtained the

father was well liked THE Bolshevik

departed Coldstream the United States. from high school, Germany or

his

after Demyan and me to join the whom he neighbours, Although strictly non-political, my post of a grade school teacher in a by

Young Communist from this practice, for a Regimental not far from the had always been ready to help out. Komsomol-the flourishing city then had about 30,000 inhabitants, son. Although bitter civil war was lng to his duties as an inspector of dered not to pull off their hats when they pass an offeer, or speak to jus locomotives, kept warning us to

to clap up them, but only My salary ranged as high as 35 going on, there was still some

decency in the stay away from any and all political hands to their hats, and bow as they roubles (18 U.S. dollars) a month. iice and human

the world. Despite the fact that JE owned our own house and led a It was in that village, during

we activities.

"Remember," he would say, "there pass by." my were not with the Whites, I War, that I met of future husband.

able to go from one raniting officer all kinds of people in the have to work hard taking care

One of the respected members of to another to fight Demyon's case. world, and the more you talk, the or confirmed an existing one, which the large family. Fulher wanted me

community was to become a teacher, and I gave him the

I was even able to get an inter- more trouble you'll get Into."

With the tightening of the reins by my promise when I was still in named Nikita Kasenkin. According view with the general next to the

rulers, the Communists pigtails.

to the classification Inter made by commander-in-chief himself. "He's the Soviet

a harmless,

my began to trent Demyan with he's Bolsheviks, Nikita

non-political, The famous Donetz Basin, where the I was born and raised, was then in serednyak-a farmer of the middle Demyan" I argued. Finally a com- picion. Had he not been an officer Investi- in the Czar's army? Although he its boom days. This part of the class. He had a son, Demyan, who mission was appointed to country boasted both great agricul- wOR attending the Commercial gate whether Demyan had ever been had been imprisoned by the Whites

released for refusing to join them, the Com- Another Breakaway in Kiev,

Bolshevik, and he was studying tural and mineral wealth, especially Institute

munists now made us suffer for not had mathematics and railway engineer after four months of imprisonment.

Ten years later there is evidence The villages coal deposits.

The them. afterwards the White joining

Communist Shortly

Guards frowned mushroomed into great beehives. ing.

General Deniken were maxim has always been, "If you're that the Horse

upon the innovation, which had not Industrial settlements had sprung

In Love

stashed by the Reds. Demyan had not with us, you're against us."

received omelal approval, for No. almost overnight. up everywhere

Until the autumn of 1022, Demyen 136 of "Standing Orders for the Food was plentiful and cheap. DEMYAN was two and a half years great difcuity in reaching our vil-

and had several

the petty annoy-Army-1755" stated: His studies were loge,

narrow weathered easily

"N.C.O's and для Whatever misery

poverty existed in the northern and western interrupted when he was already a escapes. I remember his homecom- ances by the local zealots. Just then soldiers are to pull off their hats to

He had a fully grown beard, I gave birth to my second child, all officers (whatever Corps they be provinces of the vast empire, here, senior by a call to military service. Ing.

died, from a heart Into the Czar's and at first I could scarcely re- girl, who later in the southeastern corner of Russia, He was drafted

allment.

remember that the drive long to) whenever they pass them," want was unknown. Life was gay. army. While at the front fighting cognise him.

commissioned

time against religion was going into full thus restoring the original custom Life In Moscow

Another "breakaway," this There was toil, but there was also the Germans, he was

swing, and we hold her christening In The Royal Scots, can be traced to song. Thrifty pensants and skilled an officer. He had never attended

EMYAN was determined to go to in sceret.

1762, as the following extract from workers could afford to give their a milltary school and had no idea Moscow to continue his studies, During this outbreak of Red ter- their Standing Orders shows: "As children not only a primary, but of following a regular army career. even a higher education.

Demyan fell in love with me now that the road to the capital was ror. Demyan was saved by the nothing disfigures the hats or dirties on open. He wanted me to attend the chairman of the Slavyansk Soviet, the lace worn more than taking off My father sent me to Mazurenko's during one of his trips home

I was proud university with him, and take special who had known him from childhood the hats, the men for the future High School for Girls; A private leave, and I with him.

in courses there. It was a daring un- and was aware that he never was school in which the tuition was 85 of the distinction he had won

dertaking to move

In an to Moscow

enemy of the Soviet regime. are only to raise the back of their hands to them with a brisk motion roubles (roughly 43 U.S. dollars) u defence of the country.

an oflcer." year. Kamenskaya, then a prosper- But because Demyan had answer- those chaotic days. But life in the Now he quietly advised Demyan to when they pass an

Here we have o reason for not Ing community, also had a public ed the call to duty and attained the provinces was, becoming almost un- get out of lawn.

Czarist bearable, what with the constant

taking off hats it solled them. high school where the tuition was 20 rank of Heutenant in the

Tomorrow: Mrs Kastakina DON- roubles (10 US dollars) less. But service, he was a marked man for changes of the ruling powers. Dem-

yan and I made it, and we enrolled Hanes her account of life under the Hondling 'a musket, particularly on in the state school the girls word the rost of his days. This cost brown

of her husband's uniforms, which I did not long shadow of terror over our lives. as students in Moscow. There we Reds and the ovents which led to active service, was presumably death in the arcat dirty business, and the Colonel

the 1st Foot wanted his regiment like, I preferred the green worn by It struck down my husband in his were married in the summer

prime, my fledgling son in his 1920. Mazurenko's students,

always to appear smart and clean. (Continued on Page 3) (Copyright, 1948, King Features Syndicats, Inc. Reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited)

there were no boys in the fornily. mature death from tuberculosis. But Volunteer Army, he was suspected hands of an inexperienced teacher armour, with plies in their hands.

the

father was a member of the raliway nearby village of Slavyansk which Many of them now pleaded for his League. My father, who was attend. Order of 1745 read: "The men

uhion,

Donetz Basin Boom

Womfortable life. My mother did

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This may have started a practice, spread to other regiments. In fact, Dean Swift (1887-1745) had writ-

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